Fred588 wrote:Even though the days are now getting longer, winter just began a few days ago. I don't like winter. The last of the tomatoes and the last of the pea pods from the Studio gardens were both eaten today. There are a few radishes and bok choy but not for much longer. Come on Spring.
It's 77 right at now in North Central Texas, and yesterday I believe we topped 80. Much as I appreciate warmer weather, temps like this in December tend to invite catastrophic weather here like some of the rest of the nation experienced recently. We had an F0-F1 here in Jan. 2006 just as I was coming back into town from a Christmas trip out of state. It followed me paralleling the highway home for about 20 miles, but missed me.
Some plants have awakened here in just a couple of days due to the unseasonable weather, are desperately trying to reproduce, and now my nose is watery and my eyes are stopped up.
Oddly enough, I spent the first half of October on the Red River (the one down here, not the one in N. Dak, MN and Canada), and several nights were much colder then than what we're experiencing now overnight here. MUCH colder, he said, regretting that he hadn't brought a heavier sleeping bag.
Just a reminder: only ~363 more shopping days until Christmas, something like that.